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The series on New England spiders was followed by four supplements, two papers on Canadian spiders and numerous smaller articles, describing in all over 350 species, always with useful illustrations. No other writer has so thoroughly figured his species, old as well as new. In several papers he traced the distribution of certain northern spiders.
Spiders native to North America may also be found in categories covering larger areas: Category:Cosmopolitan spiders – spiders native worldwide; Category:Holarctic spiders – spiders native to the Holarctic; includes North America; Category:Pantropical spiders – Central American and Caribbean spiders native throughout the tropics
The spider book; a manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, harvestmen and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, with analytical keys for their classification and popular accounts of their habits.
The spiders are hard to miss. The Joro spiders are known for their distinctive yellow bands on their black legs. The males have a light brown abdomen, while the females have bright yellow abdomens ...
Dolomedes / d ɒ l ə ˈ m iː d iː z / is a genus of large spiders of the family Pisauridae.They are also known as fishing spiders, raft spiders, dock spiders or wharf spiders.Almost all Dolomedes species are semiaquatic, with the exception of the tree-dwelling D. albineus of the southeastern United States.
Tetragnatha versicolor is a species of long-jawed orb weaver in the spider family Tetragnathidae. It is found throughout North America, Canada, Central America, and Cuba, but are most common in the United States. T. versicolor is heavily concentrated in New England and the west coast in states like California and Washington.
The katipō spider is related to the Australian redback and other widow spiders. This spider can be found in New Zealand in burrows or trees. The name means "night-stinger" in native Māori language. This species is listed as endangered due to habitat loss, as well as non-native spider introduction. It is estimated that only a few thousand of ...
Agelenopsis, commonly known as the American grass spiders, is a genus of funnel weavers described by C.G. Giebel in 1869. [1] They weave sheet webs that have a funnel shelter on one edge. The web is not sticky, but these spiders make up for that by running very rapidly. The larger specimens (depending on species) can grow to about 19 mm in body ...